Major announcement: Midjourney is introducing "Patchwork," a multiplayer collaborative worldbuilding platform that marks the company's expansion beyond pure image generation.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Midjourney, the popular AI image generation startup with more than 21 million users on its Discord server alone, is branching out from AI image creation and editing.Patchwork revealedMax Kreminski, leader of Midjourney’s Storytelling Lab, demoed the new tool, called “Patchwork,” in a livestream screenshare on Discord and X via Restream.Screenshot of a Patchwork world.He clarified that it would be a stand alone app that would require Midjourney accounts to log into, and that the URL would be available as a “research preview” in the Midjourney Discord server’s “updates” channel. Users will need to connect their Midjourney Discord account to their Google Account to access Patchwork’s research preview. The company posted instructions for doing so on its X account.The tool appears to be a web-based blank white, infinite canvas with a “toolbox” on the left side of the browser screen, showing a variety of buttons labeled for “character,” “event,” “faction,” “place,” “prop,” and “random,” as well as tools such as “note,” “image,” “portal,” “save” and “share.” “Save” downloads a JSON file with links to all the Midjourney images created in the canvas. Midjourney considers each canvas a separate digital “world.”To switch between worlds, the user creates a “portal,” a small black circular button.To generate a new world, the user enters a text prompt into an editor bar at the top of the “create” screen and selects one or more of a set of 10 different image styles.This then produces a new whiteboard with a bunch of new still image assets and text boxes or entities known as “scraps”, including input boxes that allow the user to prompt new images or settings that fit the initial world description, even whole new AI generated character descriptions

Midjourney finally launched its new Image Editor feature.